Section 2: Saturday, May 18, Saturday; May 18 cont. & Saturday, May 18 cont. Summary

On Saturday, May 18, Jared reaches Hamburg by mid-afternoon and continues to Radenau where he rents a hotel room and faxes a copy of the Great Forgetting lecture to Fr. Lulfre. After dinner, he takes a walk and finds the site of B's next appearance, where people picket about B being a blasphemer. B's lecture is held in a small theater where B is alone onstage. As Jared takes an empty seat near the front, B's eyes light up with recognition while talking about the boiling of a frog, and Jared recognizes some of the lecture information from the previous lecture in Munich. Jared transcribes the lecture, closing his eyes to aid his concentration. When he opens his eyes, B gestures with his hand, but no one else...